PMID- 27066903 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20161213 LR - 20181113 IS - 1749-8090 (Electronic) IS - 1749-8090 (Linking) VI - 11 IP - 1 DP - 2016 Apr 11 TI - Aortic valve replacement in elderly with small aortic root and low body surface area; the Perceval S valve and its impact in effective orifice area. PG - 54 LID - 10.1186/s13019-016-0438-7 [doi] LID - 54 AB - BACKGROUND: The aim of this study is to see how the sutureless, stentless, Perceval S aortic valves behave when implanted in elderly patients with small aortic root and the comparison with a second group of patients with similar characteristics where a conventional stented bioprosthesis was implanted. This is a prospective randomized institutional study. METHODS: Our material is composed from 25 patients who underwent aortic valve replacement with sutureless self-anchoring Perceval S valve implantation (LivaNova), compared with 25 patients with conventional stented biological prosthesis implanted (soprano LivaNova group). The two groups of patients have similar demographic and medical characteristics with severe aortic stenosis. The study was conducted from January 2012 to June 2014. Preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative parameters were studied in order to investigate the utility of the Perceval S valves in this group of patients. RESULTS: The Perceval S valve implantation seems to be an interesting biological valve with good hemodynamic characteristics as compared with the typical biological prosthesis providing shorter ischemia time (40 +/- 5.50 min vs 86 +/- 15.86 min; p < 0.001), shorter extracorporeal circulation time (73.75 +/- 8.12 min vs 120.36 +/- 28.31 min p < 0.001), less operation time (149.38 +/- 15.22 min vs 206.64 +/- 42.85 min; p < 0.001) and better postoperative recovery. The postoperative gradients were 23.5 +/- 19.20 mmHg vs 24.5 +/- 19.90 mmHg respectively. The postoperative effective orifice area in these two groups were respectively 1.5 =/-0.19 cm(2) vs 1.1=/-0.5 cm(2) (p 0.002). Among the 25 patients of the Soprano stented valve, 3 (12 %) came back in 6 months with New York Heart Association (NYHA) 3. The PPM of these patients was the cause of readmission in the Hospital required diuresis and supplementary treatment. CONCLUSIONS: Aortic valve replacement with Perceval aortic valves in geriatric patients with comorbidities and small aortic annulus seems to be an alternative, safe and "fast" intervention with excellent short and mid-term results which provides a better effective orifice area. FAU - Dedeilias, Panagiotis AU - Dedeilias P AD - Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery Department, "Evangelismos" General Hospital of Athens, 45-47 Ipsilantou Street, Kolonaki, Athens, Greece. FAU - Baikoussis, Nikolaos G AU - Baikoussis NG AD - Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery Department, "Evangelismos" General Hospital of Athens, 45-47 Ipsilantou Street, Kolonaki, Athens, Greece. nikolaos.baikoussis@gmail.com. FAU - Prappa, Efstathia AU - Prappa E AD - Department of Cardiology, "Evangelismos" General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece. FAU - Asvestas, Dimitrios AU - Asvestas D AD - Department of Cardiology, "Evangelismos" General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece. FAU - Argiriou, Michalis AU - Argiriou M AD - Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery Department, "Evangelismos" General Hospital of Athens, 45-47 Ipsilantou Street, Kolonaki, Athens, Greece. FAU - Charitos, Christos AU - Charitos C AD - Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery Department, "Evangelismos" General Hospital of Athens, 45-47 Ipsilantou Street, Kolonaki, Athens, Greece. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Randomized Controlled Trial DEP - 20160411 PL - England TA - J Cardiothorac Surg JT - Journal of cardiothoracic surgery JID - 101265113 SB - IM MH - Aged MH - Aged, 80 and over MH - Aortic Valve/surgery MH - Aortic Valve Stenosis/*surgery MH - Bioprosthesis MH - Body Surface Area MH - Female MH - *Heart Valve Prosthesis MH - Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation/*instrumentation/methods MH - Hemodynamics MH - Humans MH - Male MH - Operative Time MH - Prospective Studies MH - Prosthesis Design MH - Stents MH - Sutureless Surgical Procedures/instrumentation/methods PMC - PMC4827171 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Aortic valve OT - Aortic valve stenosis OT - Heart valve surgery OT - Perceval S OT - Self-expanding valve OT - Stentless aortic valve OT - Sutureless valve EDAT- 2016/04/14 06:00 MHDA- 2016/12/15 06:00 PMCR- 2016/04/11 CRDT- 2016/04/13 06:00 PHST- 2015/08/18 00:00 [received] PHST- 2016/04/03 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2016/04/13 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2016/04/14 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2016/12/15 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2016/04/11 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1186/s13019-016-0438-7 [pii] AID - 438 [pii] AID - 10.1186/s13019-016-0438-7 [doi] PST - epublish SO - J Cardiothorac Surg. 2016 Apr 11;11(1):54. doi: 10.1186/s13019-016-0438-7.